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Re:How Signal's design contributed to the U.S. war plans leak by fragmede on Thursday April 10, 2025 @05:28PM (#43648187)
In all of this, the question of its encryption hasn't come up? Me texting my mom about family drama that wants to be secret doesn't have the same threat model as actual war plans, but has the encryption itself been deemed sufficiently unbreakable that it's down to UX issues that are the problem and I don't have to worry about anybody uninvited listening in when texting family secrets on signal?
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Re:How Signal's design contributed to the U.S. war plans leak by moograms on Friday April 11, 2025 @07:04PM (#43659640)
Not an expert, but it's one of those things where you can never be 100% sure somebody doesn't have a top secret algorithm. But to the best of mainstream knowledge, yes, the encryption is fine. But watch out for quantum computing next decade. That has a chance to make today's encryption breakable.
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